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  • SEC Baseball Tournament Texas AM uses 3 homers to upset top-seeded Vanderbilt

    SEC Digital Network HOOVER, Ala. -- Ninth-seeded Texas A&M launched three home runs Wednesday to knock off top-seeded Vanderbilt, 5-0, in the Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium. The Aggies (32-25), who defeated eighth-seeded Florida on Tuesday evening, advance to face the winner between fourth-seeded South Carolina and fifth-seeded Mississippi State ...

  • Alabama womens golf 12 shots back of Southern Cal at NCAA Championships

    Alabama's Stephanie Meadow has the 36-hole individual lead in the clubhouse with an 8-under-par 136 after a 5-under 67 on Wednesday. (Alabama Athletics ...

  • TechBits high tech hunting rifle

    The rifle from Trackingpoint can essentially put a hunt on 'cruise control'. It uses a ballistics computer to calculate factors such as distance, wind, and how steady the rifle is being held. All a hunter has to do is identify the target, then wait for the computer to take the ...

  • Possible cuts for National Weather Service meteorologists

    Big cuts could hit agencies that issue storm warnings. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration -or NOAA- has proposed furloughs for it's employees. Sequestration and budget cuts are to ...

  • Construction worker killed in accidental electrocution in Birmingham

    A construction worker died Wednesday after being accidentally electrocuted in Birmingham. The victim, a Star Construction employee, was killed while working in an alley near the 3700 block of 6th Avenue South at around 11:30 a.m. Birmingham police and fire responded to the scene and a crew from Alabama Power arrived a short time later. The man's identity is being withheld until all family ...


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Movie Review

Tarzan and the Lost City

"Tarzan and the Lost City" is one of the most anemic movies to come out in quite a while. Not only it is poorly written, badly acted, and generally incompetent in all cinematic areas, it is thoroughly uninspired and insipid. Unfortunately, it's not bad in the way great, colossal misfires like "Heaven's Gate" (1980) or "Ishtar" (1987) are bad. Instead, it literally drips off the screen like a movi ... ...

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